| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D474897 |
Camouflage pattern applied to material |
May 27, 2003 |
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| 7355926 |
Portable low frequency projector |
April 8, 2008 |
| A portable low frequency underwater acoustic projector having two circular diaphragms separated by a spacer ring with a pair of coils and oscillating masses being located in pipes connected to central opening in two diaphragms, the coils driving these masses in opposite directions. C |
| 7150428 |
Beam laser atmospheric scattering trajectory guidance |
December 19, 2006 |
| A guidance system for a missile utilitizes a laser beam source at a missile launch pad to generate a laser beam that is directed towards a target. A sensor on the body of a spinning missile detects radiation scattered from the laser beam, the sensor looking sideways and backward at a |
| 7056479 |
Process for preparing carbon nanotubes |
June 6, 2006 |
| Carbon nanotubes are formed on carbon paper by first depositing a metal catalyst on the carbon paper, and passing a feedstock gas containing a source of carbon over the substrate while applying an electrical current thereto to heat the substrate sufficiently to generate a reaction betwee |
| 6876944 |
Motor speed estimation for stabilized motor control |
April 5, 2005 |
| A speed of a motor is estimated by determining a correlation between a current wave sensed at the motor and frequency pairs from a set of weighted frequency pairs representing the current wave. Components of a motor control signal are fit to a corresponding number of first orthogonal |
| 6842134 |
Highly accurate digital to analog converter |
January 11, 2005 |
| Disclosed is a D/A converter including a DC processing circuit, an analog switching device, a bootstrap circuit, and a third order low-pass filter. The boots trap circuit substantially reduces loading created by the low-pass filter circuit and acting on the switching device. Cross-over |
| 6831279 |
Laser diode-excited biological particle detection system |
December 14, 2004 |
| Apparatus is provided for detection of viable and potentially hazardous biological particles in a population which may be dispersed in fluid flow. The particles are characterized as biological and viable by contacting particles with laser light from a laser diode and then looking for the |
| 6818748 |
Cloning, expression, sequencing, and functional enhancement of monoclonal ScFv antibody against |
November 16, 2004 |
| A single chain variable fragment (ScFv) antibody from a monoclonal antibody (Mab) against Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus, is generated by cloning linked variable regions of the heavy (V.sub.H) and the light (V.sub.L) chain antibody genes. Mab clone 1A.sub.4 A.sub.1 in E. coli |
| 6812329 |
Construction and characterization of monoclonal antibodies against western equine encephalitis v |
November 2, 2004 |
| Construction and characterization of mouse monoclonal antibodies against western equine encephalitis virus (WEE) for potential use in detection, diagnosis, and immunotherapy are disclosed. Antibodies were prepared from hybridoma cells and further characterized by ELISAs, Western blotting |
| 6805671 |
Method and device for measuring systolic and diastolic blood pressure and heart rate in an envir |
October 19, 2004 |
| A method and a device for measuring blood pressure and heart rate in an environment comprising extreme levels of noise and vibrations is disclosed. Blood pressure signals corresponding to the Korotkoff sounds are detected using an array of primary acoustic sensors, placed on the pati |
| 6800289 |
Strain of the western equine encephalitis virus |
October 5, 2004 |
| This invention relates to the development of a mammalian expression vector, under which expression of the structural genes of western equine encephalitis virus have been placed under the control of an eucaryotic promoter. When the recombinant vector is administered to mammalian cell |
| 6799499 |
Landmine neutralizer using a high power microwave device |
October 5, 2004 |
| An apparatus to neutralize landmines using high power microwaves has a blast hardened dish antenna mounted on a vehicle along with a microwave generator and power generator A waveguide from the microwave generator feeds microwaves to a feed horn for the antenna. Plugs that are transp |
| 6719696 |
High resolution 3D ultrasound imaging system deploying a multi-dimensional array of sensors and |
April 13, 2004 |
| An adaptive multidimensional beamformer having near-instantaneous convergence for ultrasound imaging systems deploying multidimensional sensor arrays is disclosed. In a first step, the multidimensional beamformer is decomposed into sub-apertures. Each sub-aperture is then again decom |
| 6708134 |
Method to estimate motor speed for stabilized motor control |
March 16, 2004 |
| A method to estimate motor speed for extended stabilized rotational control of an induction motor at all speeds including slow speeds. The speed estimator supplies real-time time motor control feedback information for a variable speed motor drive controller without a mechanical encoder. |
| 6705998 |
Method and device for measuring systolic and diastolic blood pressure and heart rate in an envir |
March 16, 2004 |
| A method and a device for measuring systolic and diastolic blood pressure and heart rate in an environment comprising extreme levels of noise and vibrations is disclosed. Blood pressure signals corresponding to the Korotkoff sounds are detected using a first acoustic sensor, or array of |
| 6657573 |
Phase to sine amplitude conversion system and method |
December 2, 2003 |
| A phase-to-sinusoid-amplitude conversion system and method for use in, for example, direct digital frequency synthesizer applications. The system and method convert phase data to signal amplitude data using an approximation of the first quadrant of a sine function using a plurality of li |
| 6584039 |
Multi-mode pipe projector |
June 24, 2003 |
| An underwater acoustic projector comprising a pair of spaced apart end plates with an acoustic driver positioned between the end plates, the driver having smaller cross-sectional dimensions than the end plates. Each end plate close one end of an open ended tubular pipe waveguide and that |
| 6567343 |
Flextensional resonant pipe projector |
May 20, 2003 |
| An underwater acoustic projector comprising a pair of spaced apart end walls with an acoustic driver positioned between the end walls, the driver having smaller cross-sectional dimensions than the end walls. The projector has a one piece thin wall inwardly concavely shaped shell with |
| 6567342 |
Flared wave-guide projector |
May 20, 2003 |
| An underwater acoustic projector comprising a pair of spaced apart end walls with an acoustic driver positioned between the end walls, the driver having smaller cross-sectional dimensions than the end walls. Each end wall close one end of flared open ended pipe waveguides and is mech |
| 6562159 |
Insensitive melt cast explosive compositions containing energetic thermoplastic elastomers |
May 13, 2003 |
| An insensitive melt cast explosive composition obtained by dissolving an energetic copolyurethane thermoplastic elastomer ("ETPE") in melted trinitrotoluene ("TNT") is disclosed. The resulting ETPE-TNT solution is easy to mix with other ingredients such as nitramines, plasticizers, a |
| 6545949 |
Axial drive resonant pipe projector (ADRPP) |
April 8, 2003 |
| An underwater acoustic projector comprising a pair of spaced apart end walls with an acoustic driver positioned between the end walls, the driver having smaller cross-sectional dimensions than the end walls. Each end wall close one end of open ended tubular pipe waveguides and is mec |
| 6520918 |
Method and device for measuring systolic and diastolic blood pressure and heart rate in an envir |
February 18, 2003 |
| A method and a device for measuring systolic and diastolic blood pressure and heart rate in an environment comprising extreme levels of noise and vibrations is disclosed. Blood pressure signals corresponding to the heart beat are detected using a first acoustic sensor placed on a patient |
| 6508894 |
Insensitive propellant formulations containing energetic thermoplastic elastomers |
January 21, 2003 |
| An energetic and recyclable propellant composition, which is capable of withstanding cold temperature, includes an energetic copolyurethane thermoplastic elastomer. The propellant composition can be used as a gun or rocket propellant, an explosive or in air bag gas generators. |
| 6482160 |
High resolution 3D ultrasound imaging system deploying a multidimensional array of sensors and m |
November 19, 2002 |
| An adaptive multidimensional beamformer having near-instantaneous convergence for ultrasound imaging systems deploying multidimensional sensor arrays is disclosed. In a first step, the multidimensional beamformer is decomposed into sub-apertures. Each sub-aperture is then again decom |
| 6388604 |
Circuit for LPI signal detection and suppression of conventional pulsed signals |
May 14, 2002 |
| A pulse Low Probability of Intercept (LPI) signal discriminator has a soft-limiting IF amplifier chain for receiving an IF signal to soft-limit any high-peak IF signals in the IF signal and a high-peak amplitude compressive circuit followed by an integrator which integrates the signal |
| 6355445 |
Method of detecting a pathogen using a virus |
March 12, 2002 |
| A bacteriophage linked to an enzyme can replace an antibody in a system for detecting the presence of a bacteria in a sample. Specifically Brucella abortus (a pathogen which causes brucellosis in cattle) can be detected using Brucella bacteriophage for the virus, urease for the enzyme li |
| 6343534 |
Landmine detector with a high-power microwave illuminator and an infrared detector |
February 5, 2002 |
| A hybrid remote-sensing apparatus is based on an active high-power microwave (HPM) illuminator and a passive infrared (IR) detector for the detection of shallow buried landmines. A 2.45 GHz, 5 kW microwave source is used for illumination and the thermal signature at the soil surface is |
| 6341748 |
Emergency exit system |
January 29, 2002 |
| An emergency exit system for use primarily in a helicopter or other aircraft includes a panel closing an opening in the fuselage of the aircraft, a plurality of latches for releasably securing the panel in the opening; a release mechanism including slides on each side of the opening |
| 6236705 |
Method for tracing organ motion and removing artifacts for computed tomography imaging systems |
May 22, 2001 |
| A method of tracking organ motion and removing motion artifacts in X-ray computer tomography scans is disclosed. An object is irradiated by two sources such that the object is irradiated from a same location at two different time instances. Projection measurement data are detected by a |
| 6221386 |
Use of virulence factors of pathogens to improve liposomal delivery of therapeutic agents |
April 24, 2001 |
| Liposome encapsulated antibiotic therapy has limited application against infectious organisms, which can sequester in non-phagocytic cells. Virulence factors of these infectious organisms, for example bacterial components, when used in the formulation of liposomes can enhance the eff |
| 6215122 |
Method for high speed pulse pile-up rejection |
April 10, 2001 |
| A process for identifying and rejecting pile-up pulses in a system is provided. Preferably, the process is applied to mine detection where time is at a premium. A thermal neutron activator sensor (TNA) trails a mine-detecting vehicle and is dwells over the coordinates of a target of |
| 5798875 |
Apparatus for dithering |
August 25, 1998 |
| An dithering system for implementation of a microscan that dithers an image on an array of sensing elements that defines an image plane by moving one or more lenses which displaces the image focused on the image plane. Piezoelectric positioners are provided to move the one or more lenses |
| 5157604 |
Heart rate monitoring system for plural persons using radio telemetry |
October 20, 1992 |
| An apparatus for simultaneously monitoring the heart rate of each of a plurality of subjects comprises a main circuit for transmitting a predetermined signal of predetermined frequency and duration and at predetermined time intervals to cause each of a plurality of remote subcircuits |
